From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 23 19:57:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4015B16A424 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:57:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D60F43D53 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:55:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k2NJtY2f027953; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:55:34 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id k2NJtYaK027952; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:55:34 -0800 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:55:34 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Paul Schmehl Message-ID: <20060323195534.GB25560@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+g7M9IMkV8truYOl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lo0 not starting on boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:57:06 -0000 --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:07:36AM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: > In 6.0 SECURITY, what starts up lo0? It's not starting by default, and= =20 > /etc/rc.d/netif has no effect on the interface. I *believe* this is the= =20 > cause of a problem I'm having with xinerama, but I can't seem to figure o= ut=20 > how to get the loopback to come up on boot. Any help would be appreciate= d. >=20 > I already have the following in /etc/rc.conf: > network_interfaces=3D"lo0 bge0" > ifconfig_lo0=3D"inet 127.0.0.1" The second line should be unncessicary since it's already in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. Unless you have a good reason for it, I'd drop the first list as well. It's quite unnecessicary in most cases. There's clearly something weirdly broked on your system. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEIv02XY6L6fI4GtQRAji8AJ0ZmM5U3ppuyq8xiOjEinr9MnJH0QCghbjz 0BYj9HKapjIhxDT7ECSwhWE= =OV84 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl--